The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.) Samuel Beckett More Quotes by Samuel Beckett More Quotes From Samuel Beckett How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life. Samuel Beckett saving-up age said All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability. Samuel Beckett space might reality In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. Samuel Beckett extinction landscape next You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other. Samuel Beckett form literature bother Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away. Samuel Beckett despair loneliness love I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side. Samuel Beckett hands past moving I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. Samuel Beckett waste literature self The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint. Samuel Beckett events literature art We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? Samuel Beckett thinking It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once. Samuel Beckett rare-things has-beens Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure? Samuel Beckett obscure obscurity book That penny farthing hell you call your mind Samuel Beckett hell pennies mind Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most Samuel Beckett lasts dark reality My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record. Samuel Beckett records realizing lasts The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently. Samuel Beckett self reality I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." Samuel Beckett athlete writing bible Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born? Samuel Beckett details born There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty. Samuel Beckett shoes feet men Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly. Samuel Beckett If you are tied, learn to slow down not quit. Samuel Beckett
